At worst, it’s a passive-aggressive attempt at the same thing. One of the biggest complaints I have heard from women when it comes to online dating is the profound sense of entitlement that men can have.

With the unfortunate lack of anyone skilled in the making of dirty balloon sculptures, or the ability to’inflate balloons with their boxes, there isn’t much further’entertainment value to be found here unless you have a sincerely hardcore girls-fucking-around-with-balloons fetish.

Of the thirty gears that survive, twenty-nine belonged to the part of the mechanism that dealt with time cycles, eclipse prediction, the Moon’s phases, and the movements of the Sun and Moon through the zodiac.